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Genus Ozothamnus Family Asteraceae

Description: Shrubs.

Leaves alternate, sometimes minute and stem-clasping; margins often revolute, usually entire; mostly sessile.

Heads in clusters or umbellate corymbs, terminal, or terminal on short lateral branches; heads oblong, campanulate or globose; involucral bracts papery, tomentose, glabrescent or glabrous, with or without radiating laminas; receptacle flat, without interfloral scales. Florets as long as involucral bracts, all bisexual or with a few female filiform outer florets; corolla yellow or white; style branches truncate, papillose.

Achenes subterete or 4-angled, oblong, sparsely hairy with short clavate hairs or papillose; pappus of fine barbellate hairs, the apical barbels often clavate and opaque white.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 53 species, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia. Australia: 44 species (endemic), Qld, N.S.W., Vic., Tas., S.A. [Helichrysum subgen. Ozothamnus]

Text by J. Everett
Taxon concept:

Taxa not yet included in identification key
Ozothamnus sp. Boonoo Boonoo (P.J.Clarke NE068242A)

 Key to the species 
1Leaves scale-like, appressed to the stem or stem-clasping, usually less than 5 mm long2
Leaves erect or reflexed, petiolate or sessile or stem-clasping but not appressed or reduced, usually more than 5 mm long5
2Inflorescence terminal, tips of involucral bracts transparent or opaque but then not spreading3
Inflorescence on most lateral shoots, tips of the involucral bracts opaque white, spreading
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Ozothamnus cupressoides
3Involucral bracts totally transparent or hyaline4
Involucral bracts almost entirely opaque white, inflated
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Ozothamnus tuckeri
4Leaves fused to the stem for half their lengthOzothamnus adnatus
Leaves articulate or stem-clasping
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Ozothamnus diotophyllus
5Involucral bracts woolly or thin and scarious or hyaline, without opaque white laminas6
Involucral bracts with opaque white papery laminas
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6Involucral bracts white-woolly7
Involucral bracts scarious or hyaline
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7Leaves obovate, the upper surface scabrousOzothamnus obovatus
Leaves lanceolate, the upper surface glabrous
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Ozothamnus whitei
8Leaves linear, c. 1 mm wide9
Leaves lanceolate or obcordate, more than 3 mm wide
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9Heads globose; leaves stiff, fused to the stem for half their lengthOzothamnus tesselatus
Heads narrow-campanulate; leaves flexible, not fused to the stem
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Ozothamnus cassinioides
10Stems strongly angularOzothamnus vagans
Stems terete or slightly striate
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11Leaves with petiole at least 4 mm long, loosely webby on both surfaces; decumbent, prostrate shrubsOzothamnus bidwillii
Leaves with petiole ± 1 mm long, upper surface glabrous, lower surface closely tomentose; erect shrubs
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12Leaves oblong; inflorescence pyramidalOzothamnus rufescens
Leaves obcordate; inflorescence a broad corymb
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Ozothamnus obcordatus
13Involucral bracts almost entirely opaque white, inflated and crinkly, hyaline only at the very base; leaves tightly revolute, completely obscuring the lower surfaceOzothamnus diosmifolius
Outer involucral bracts scarious, hyaline, brown, yellow or red; inner involucral bracts with white papery laminas; leaves flat, recurved or slightly revolute, but not obscuring the lower surface
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14All new growth with long needle-like glistening hairs; outer involucral bracts redOzothamnus alpinus
Plants without needle-like hairs; outer involucral bracts brown or yellow
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15Leaves spathulate to cuneateOzothamnus cuneifolius
Leaves linear, lanceolate or oblong
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16Leaves lanceolate, the largest more than 6 mm wide17
Leaves linear or oblong, less than 3 mm wide
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17Heads 5–10 mm long, 8–12 mm diamOzothamnus stirlingii
Heads 4–5 mm long, 2.5 – 4 mm diam
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Ozothamnus argophyllus
18Inflorescence of corymbs terminal on many short lateral shoots, often only on the upper side of arching branches19
Inflorescence of corymbs terminal at the ends of major branches; shrubs without arching branches
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19Leaves with midrib on the lower surface glabrous; upper surface of the leaf glabrescentOzothamnus thyrsoideus
Leaves with midrib on the lower surface tomentose, the same colour as the rest of the surface; upper surface of the leaf with appressed hairs arranged pinnately
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Ozothamnus secundiflorus
20Most leaves at right angles to the stem; leaves with base distinctly tinged yellow on lower surface; outer bracts usually tinged yellowOzothamnus turbinatus
Leaves variously spreading but not consistently arranged; neither base of leaves nor bracts tinged yellow
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21Leaves with margins revolute, scabrous with minute antrorse prickles on the upper surfaceOzothamnus rosmarinifolius
Leaves with margins flat or scarcely recurved; leaves woolly or glabrescent on the upper surface
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22Leaves with margins finely crenateOzothamnus ferrugineus
Leaves with margins smooth
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Ozothamnus conditus

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